Word: units
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hugh Cabot '94, in charge of the Fourth Contingent of the Harvard Unit, which has just completed a service of three months in charge of a semi-base hospital "somewhere in France," has written a brief account of the work, parts of which are printed below...
Praise for Members of Unit...
...Harvard Advocate, founded in May 1866, is the oldest current newspaper at Harvard. It is published fortnightly during the college year, printing stories, essays, verse, articles, books and theatrical reviews. Literary candidates become eligible to election when credited with five units. Long stories and essays count one unit each, and according to this standard, poems and short stories are estimated. A competition determines the eligibility of business candidates. The Advocate desires, above all, to be readable, believing that this is the surest criterion of undergraduate literary merit. The Sanctum is on the third floor of the Union...
Five hundred men at Yale, four hundred men at the University of Pennsylvania, six hundred men at Technology, and 1200 men at Cornell have already enrolled in training units similar to the one now being instituted at the University. One hundred men have enrolled in the Harvard unit. Nothing can express the disgraceful showing of Harvard undergraduates better than these facts...
Only a little more than 100 men have as yet enrolled in the course Military Science and Tactics 1. As the War Department at Washington requires 100 as a minimum before the course can qualify as a unit in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps this means that so far the University, which last year took the lead in the intercollegiate preparedness movement, has only a little more than one unit to date...